New subject: [MickaCoo] SF Animal Control & Welfare Comm. may recommend pet adoption only tonight at City Hall

9 Jun 2011

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*The ordinance would state that in San Francisco, people can acquire pets of
all species through the following methods: 1) Pet store adoptions events; 2)
Pet store permanent adoption centers/partnerships; 3) Direct sale from small
breeders; 4) Adoption from shelters such as Animal Care and Control and the
SF/SPCA; 5) Adoption from animal rescue organizations. Methods that fall
outside of those listed above, such as non-adoption sales through pet
stores, would not be permitted.*

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*San Francisco Commission of*

*Animal Control & Welfare*

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*MEETING AGENDA*

Thursday, June 9, 2011

5:30 PM

Room 408

City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

San Francisco, CA 94102-4689

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Susanna Russo, Geneva Page, Jack Aldridge, DVM, Andrea Brooks, Sally
Stephens
Philip Gerrie, Pam Hemphill, Vicky Guldbech, John Denny, Lisa Wayne

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Mailing Address: City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place,

Room 362

San Francisco, CA 94102

Commission Voicemail: (415) 554-6074

Website: www.sfgov.org/awcc

Commission Chairperson: Sally Stephens

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*(Note: Public comment will be taken on each item.  Items are first
introduced to the Commission, and then there is public comment.  After
public comment, the Commission may further discuss the item and vote if it
is an action item.)*

   1. ***Call to Order and Roll Call*

    1. ***General Public Comment*
      Members of the public may address the Commission with comments or
      recommendations on items within the Commission’s jurisdiction *other
      than the items on the agenda* at the beginning or end of the meeting,
      but not both.

   1. ***Approval of Draft Minutes from the May 12, 2011 Meeting*

[Discussion/Action Item]*
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   1. ***Chairperson’s report and opening remarks *
   [Discussion Item]

   A) Update on Rules Committee hearing to fill expiring appointments to the
   Commission
    2. ***Old Business
   *A) Update on attempts to develop a database of animal abusers that could
   be accessed by city shelters and rescue groups to help them screen potential
   adopters and keep abusers from adopting animals through them. [Discussion
   Item] [Commissioners Brooks and Stephens]
    3. ***New Business
    *A) Discussion and possible action to recommend to the Board of
   Supervisors that they pass an ordinance requiring the humane acquisition of
   pets in San Francisco. Pets would include dogs, cats, birds, small animals
   (including but not limited to hamsters, gerbils, rats, mice, guinea pigs,
   and chinchillas), reptiles, amphibians, and aquarium fish. [Note: live
   animals purchased as food for pets are excluded.] The ordinance would state
   that in San Francisco, people can acquire pets of all species through the
   following methods: 1) Pet store adoptions events; 2) Pet store permanent
   adoption centers/partnerships; 3) Direct sale from small breeders; 4)
   Adoption from shelters such as Animal Care and Control and the SF/SPCA; 5)
   Adoption from animal rescue organizations. Methods that fall outside of
   those listed above, such as non-adoption sales through pet stores, would not
   be permitted.

   The pet trade is a multi-billion dollar industry that treats animals as
   commodities to be bought and sold for profit. This leads to suffering on a
   massive scale when animals are warehoused, bred for sale, denied
   socialization and basic veterinary care, and finally transported with
   minimal care. Animals from mills develop diseases creating public health
   problems. Importation of sick animals to SF is bad for SF animals. Buying
   animals from local breeders and adopting from rescue/shelters are healthier
   companion animal choices. Shelter adoptions will increase when people cannot
   buy animals on impulse at retail stores. Euthanasia rates will decrease as a
   result. Many birds, reptiles, and fish are actually taken from the wild to
   be sold as pets, or bred in captivity. At the same time, the pet trade fuels
   an overpopulation problem. Pets escape, are released "into the wild" or wind
   up at ACC to be euthanized by the City. The ordinance is not a prohibition
   of owning pets but is an endorsement of the benefits to animals (and
   consumers) of adoption from shelters and rescues versus purchases from
   stores. [Discussion/Action Item][Commissioners Gerrie, Page, and Russo]
   4. ***General Public Comment
   *Members of the public may address the Commission with comments or
   recommendations on items within the Commission’s jurisdiction *other than
   the items on the agenda* at the beginning or end of the meeting, but not
   both.

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Elizabeth
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